OldePhart
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...or on their way to being so.
I liked the JJB soundboard pickups that I put in my Mainland sopranos so much that I ordered several more.
I put a model 200 (two sensors) in my Baritone - didn't notice at first but I initially had an issue with one lead touching a brace and causing a buzz at a particular note - fixed with a dab of hot-melt to hold the lead off the brace. I need to remember to record a replacement for the sound sample I posted earlier.
Tonight I put another JJB-100 in my coffee-can resonator uke...waiting for strings to settle in so I can set the bridge and do a sound sample.
I also didn't stop with the ukes - I ordered a 200 (2 pickups) for my Meinl wood bongo. I figured that if it didn't work I would pull the pickup out and use it on something else later. It actually worked pretty good. I put one transducer in approximately the center of each "head." I was a little concerned about whether the transducers would pick up the differences between a corner slap and a center hit, etc. It seems to have worked pretty well. Once I learn to actually play them instead of make random noises, I'll post a sound sample. I'm thinking I may actually get another jack and wire one transducer to each jack, so I can record the bongos in stereo...
I still have two pickups left that will go in my two longneck sopranos but I forgot to order an endpin jack for the KoAloha (even I can't bring myself to mount a panel jack in the side of the KoAloha... ).
John
I liked the JJB soundboard pickups that I put in my Mainland sopranos so much that I ordered several more.
I put a model 200 (two sensors) in my Baritone - didn't notice at first but I initially had an issue with one lead touching a brace and causing a buzz at a particular note - fixed with a dab of hot-melt to hold the lead off the brace. I need to remember to record a replacement for the sound sample I posted earlier.
Tonight I put another JJB-100 in my coffee-can resonator uke...waiting for strings to settle in so I can set the bridge and do a sound sample.
I also didn't stop with the ukes - I ordered a 200 (2 pickups) for my Meinl wood bongo. I figured that if it didn't work I would pull the pickup out and use it on something else later. It actually worked pretty good. I put one transducer in approximately the center of each "head." I was a little concerned about whether the transducers would pick up the differences between a corner slap and a center hit, etc. It seems to have worked pretty well. Once I learn to actually play them instead of make random noises, I'll post a sound sample. I'm thinking I may actually get another jack and wire one transducer to each jack, so I can record the bongos in stereo...
I still have two pickups left that will go in my two longneck sopranos but I forgot to order an endpin jack for the KoAloha (even I can't bring myself to mount a panel jack in the side of the KoAloha... ).
John